Hello
My Razr Xt910 batteries consumption is high
For example i'm in bed for 7 hours , It consumes 20%!
Idle consumption is too high
i'm using 2G
wifi and... is off
I close all programs
changed ROM
and .....
But this problem exists
In your opinion, why is this problem?
May be a hardware problem?
Sorry for bad English
Thanks
There's an app called Watchdog Task Manager that can monitor your apps and phone processes. That might be able to help you pin point if you've got a rogue app.
My girlfriend had to swap out her first Razr for a similar problem. Her phone would not last her an entire day with very light use. Using Watchdog Task Manager I was able to find that the suspend process was hanging and causing the battery to drain very rapidly.
milkshed27 said:
There's an app called Watchdog Task Manager that can monitor your apps and phone processes. That might be able to help you pin point if you've got a rogue app.
My girlfriend had to swap out her first Razr for a similar problem. Her phone would not last her an entire day with very light use. Using Watchdog Task Manager I was able to find that the suspend process was hanging and causing the battery to drain very rapidly.
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How do u see that?
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milkshed27 said:
There's an app called Watchdog Task Manager that can monitor your apps and phone processes. That might be able to help you pin point if you've got a rogue app.
My girlfriend had to swap out her first Razr for a similar problem. Her phone would not last her an entire day with very light use. Using Watchdog Task Manager I was able to find that the suspend process was hanging and causing the battery to drain very rapidly.
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I installed the program but did not notice anything
Who can help me?
http://www.juicedefender.com/
If you were rooted you may get rid of some apps. Like if you dont use backup asst.
It always runs in the back round. I talked to a rep the other day that said just force stop it. I said duh but it will re start itself. Make a list of what you see is running in the back round and and we can figure what program it is to see if we can freeze or get rid of it. Ahh I see you tried different Roms. You can use and app like NoBloat freeze. What Rom did you use? There is more information we need and can go from there.
Edit: How to use , go to system ,apps and look at running. Do you have email setup? How often is that set to refresh for email. So many things to look at.
Install Watchdog and agree to the license.
Set the default monitor to aggressive using the pulldown menu.
Hit the menu button on you phone and go to preferences.
Click "CPU threshold" and set it to 20%.
Click "Polling interval" and set it to 1 minute.
Click "Real time polling interval" and set it to 5 seconds.
Where it says "Include phone processes" make sure that is checked.
Click and check mark "Monitor phone processes" and "Display all phone processes"
Click on "System process CPU threshold" and set it to 40%
Now Watchdog will monitor all your apps and processes and will alert you if anything is going over the thresholds you have set. You can see what the culprit is under the alerts tab in the main menu.
Also, by going into the CPU tab on the app main menu, if you check "real time CPU" you can monitor your CPU usage in real time yourself. Anything in cyan is a background app/process, white is for system processes, and green is for apps/processes in the foreground.
I still use this app quite a bit especially if I install a few new apps, although I run it with the CPU polling interval at 10 minutes and the System process CPU threshold at 50% in my everyday usage to minimize CPU usage.
The suspend process that was giving my girlfriend problems on her phone can be seen while in the CPU tab if you check "real time CPU." I believe it will pop up after your phone is unlocked but should afterward stop and not consume any CPU. On my girlfriend's old phone this would not be the case. The suspend process would hang and constantly alert through Watchdog that it was exceeding the percentage threshold.
I'm not sure if this will be of any help and I apologize if it does not but it did help me. Good luck.
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If you were rooted you may get rid of some apps. Like if you dont use backup asst.
It always runs in the back round. I talked to a rep the other day that said just force stop it. I said duh but it will re start itself. Make a list of what you see is running in the back round and and we can figure what program it is to see if we can freeze or get rid of it. Ahh I see you tried different Roms. You can use and app like NoBloat freeze. What Rom did you use? There is more information we need and can go from there.
Edit: How to use , go to system ,apps and look at running. Do you have email setup? How often is that set to refresh for email. So many things to look at.
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Thank you very much
Rom 2.3.6
Version: 65.1.40.XT910.AsiaRetail.en.03
I close all running programs
I even removed the SIM card
But ...
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Running:
Setting
My Music
Sticky Note
News (i dont use it)
Homescreen
Google Services
My Gallery
MOBiDIV keyboard
I dont have a gsm razr but the maxx cdma. Look at what the post above says and try it. What is the actual live of the battery after a day of use or how long does it last with normal usage?
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I dont have a gsm razr but the maxx cdma. Look at what the post above says and try it. What is the actual live of the battery after a day of use or how long does it last with normal usage?
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About 20 hours
and phone idle consumption is high
Watchdog alert:
suspend
Linux Process
43.4%
What's this?
What should I do?
You should use SetCPU and underclock your CPU so it runs slower but provides better battery life.
Switch the governor to the regular hotplug instead of mot_hotplug and under advanced change the sampling rate to 30000, up threshold to 95, down threshold to 50. Also in profiles set up profiles for various circumstances so if you're sleeping, you can make it so that if the screen is off you're limited to 300/600 mhz and so on.
I was using the ondemand governor earlier and then I stumbled upon some descriptions of them where they explained hotplug as being very similar to ondemand but having the capability to switch off the second core if there is not enough workload which I believe ondemand doesn't allow you to do.
Yesterday, I was at 65% battery left after 9 1/2 hrs of mild usage (2 phonecalls, 100 sms, bit of im'ing, light browsing and a couple of emails). Had the profile set so that it would limit clock at 600mhz when my battery is under 90% and at 800mhz when its above 90%.
evonc said:
You should use SetCPU and underclock your CPU so it runs slower but provides better battery life.
Switch the governor to the regular hotplug instead of mot_hotplug and under advanced change the sampling rate to 30000, up threshold to 95, down threshold to 50. Also in profiles set up profiles for various circumstances so if you're sleeping, you can make it so that if the screen is off you're limited to 300/600 mhz and so on.
I was using the ondemand governor earlier and then I stumbled upon some descriptions of them where they explained hotplug as being very similar to ondemand but having the capability to switch off the second core if there is not enough workload which I believe ondemand doesn't allow you to do.
Yesterday, I was at 65% battery left after 9 1/2 hrs of mild usage (2 phonecalls, 100 sms, bit of im'ing, light browsing and a couple of emails). Had the profile set so that it would limit clock at 600mhz when my battery is under 90% and at 800mhz when its above 90%.
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I do not think the problem is the cpu usage
I think the battery has problem
Help Me
My battery also drains very fast, I have no clue why but I will try to charge it 100% tommorow and see how long it will last.
Please somebody help me!
May be a hardware problem?
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Please somebody help me!
May be a hardware problem?
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Try the app juicedefender and see if that helps? a longshot but maybe its worth.
20 hours out of your phone but is that moderate usage? Forget about idle time. Do you not get regular usage out of your phone?
i have a Moto razr my own , and never noticed how much the battery would last.
of course it won't concern me much , cause i already prepared my self for a lousy battery back up with a 4.3 inch display and dual core cpu!!
i got your back on this whole messed up battery fiesta thing buddy ,
i'm gonna charge my razr up , and see how it's battery gonna react , if it's as bad as your device , chances are , it's a pretty common problem on every xt910 units , and you don't need to be worry about a thing.
Try the app juicedefender and see if that helps? a longshot but maybe its worth.
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I use this program but had no effect
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20 hours out of your phone but is that moderate usage? Forget about idle time. Do you not get regular usage out of your phone?
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It does not matter, because the unemployment in 7 hours, 20% is consumed
sorry for bad english!
Have a look on this guide ( the last post) http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-razr/182391-random-apps-running-help.html
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after reading a few tips on the forums, I did the following:
1. installed SetCPU (paid) and made a custom "profile" that, when I turn the screen off, it reduces the CPU activity to the minimum (300)
2. I installed an app called "2x battery" (free) which will kill my data when the screen is off... I have it set up to where it will briefly enable my data connection every 15 min. to check for emails/texts, etc., and I also have it set up to where, if I have an active data connection (i.e. pandora) then it will not disable the data during that period.
3. With the 2x battery it also doubles as a manual task killer... or you can also install "memory booster" (lite = free)
4. set my wallpaper background to black
with these things I have really noticed an increase in battery power... try them and see what you think!
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oh yeah, after you are at 100% on your battery and have unplugged it and plugged it back in a couple times and it still stays at 100, then reboot into recovery (while still plugged in) - go to advanced - wipe battery stats - reboot - unplug and run battery all the way down till it dies - charge up without unplugging. see if that helps, it will re-condition your battery.
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Hi, I have just bought a GS2 and first impression, except battery life, is this device is awesome !
So, I have search and found some tips to save baterry life.
They is 2 goods apps which call :
* JuiceDefender Ultimate
* Auto Apps Kill
Juice Defender Ultimate could be configurate to do anything for you, for example if you shutdown your screen it could cut off 3G and WIFI automatically, and reactivate it gently sometime.
The best conf I have made is to activate WIFI only on some area I know I can connect ! So when I'm at home he shutdown my 3G, activate my Wifi, and if he can't do that he switch back to 3G. He will learn your Wifi position and activate it automatically.
So you don't need to care turn off wifi, gps ou 3g, he do everything for you !
The ultimate (which cost a little), allow you to handle everything, lesser version don't have this tweak.
Auto Apps Killer, is a apps that automatically kill apps you don't need when screen if turn off,
So you don't need to shutdown manually apps, he do the think for you.
Of course you can ignore some apps, and they is a default ignore list that prevent shuting down widget and main apps that maintain your phone as good as if nothing was killing.
So with this both, my baterry has almost double, I can use it a day long.
But, it seems they is more thing todo when you are rooted.
My question is, does anybody has installed the rooted roms that allow you to change you CPU frequency automatically.
Is they any gain you can have by downscale your CPU when power isn't need.
I know CPU is set to 1200 mhz, and I think it doesn't go down or high. With a rooted version I could make it slow to 800 mhz or less in sleeping mode, and up to 1500 when I use it hard.
With this I should have some extra power, and extra battery, and not worry to go to my work and get back home without any battery at the end of the day.
Does anybody has experience this ?
Umm yes, all stock android phones keep CPU low when idle and then increase CPU when you use it. Just install system panel and see. Root is not needed for this, it is stock function.
Oh I see it vary from 200 mhz to 1200 mhz
I let my phone all night (8 hour), full of charge. When I wake up and check, my battery was a 72 % !!!
my iPhone was at 92%, it seems to drop too many cpu
I have stock crap from my operator that ofen run, rooted could help me to remove this.
I have install System Panel to check what tools use my baterry like this.
I have disactivate push, and lock once per hour the connection with Juice Defender, but battery drain without any usage,
it should be less no ?
Yes it should be less. Other people leave their galaxy s2 over night for 8 hours and only lose 5%. So something is wrong with your setup.
My battery life has been fantastic. Best on any android phone i've owned. I'm just rooted with a few things frozen.
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Yeah I know, it's would be a dream to save a lot of battery when it is suppose to be idle.
I can't remove crap apps from Bouygues and Samsung, so here my setting :
I have widget on :
AccuWeather,
Google Adsense,
Google Analytics,
Battery Monitor Widget,
I have tools on :
Juice Defender (which stop connection on night!)
AutoApps killer (one kill per hour)
SystemPanel (to know what use my cpu like this)
My Wifi is on for any data and not my 3G data,
JuiceDefender keep it like this when I'm at home
And everytime I look my lock screen, all data is off,
Once per hour it pull it on (and not during the night), fetch data and shut it down again.
In social hub I have :
Windows Live Messenger (but should be on only when I open it no ? any monitor don't tell me that it is the problem)
And 2 Microsoft Exange Account with Email, Calendar and Contact sync
Both account is sync once per 15 min the day, and once per hour the night
And I have twitter, facebook apps which sync sometime their data
It seems calendar in Exchange sync more often, that the over, not so sure
I know this seems a lot but it also a normal usage,
Any advice ?
I've got my SGS2 to a usage of 1-1.5% a hour in standby and 16% a hour when I do normal stuff, so no games.
I've done this with Agelom's Rom with Juice Defender Ultimate, Screenfilter and AdFree Android.
I set pulls to every 1 hour which is managed by Juice Defender, GPS off and Laditude(this kept my sgs2 awake) off.
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They is 2 goods apps which call :
* JuiceDefender Ultimate
* Auto Apps Kill
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You can also try green power free from the market, its free and can turn off mobile data unlike the free version of juice defender.
I have just disconnect latitude. I will check if battery is better.
Thanks a lot for your tips.
Next step install windows.
Install kies
Odin
Rooted
And remove all bouygues crap apps that crash all the time !
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You can also try green power free from the market, its free and can turn off mobile data unlike the free version of juice defender.
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I have already buy juicer. It does it's job pretty well.
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The best way to save a lot of battery is to use SetCPU and lock speed at max 500mhz when screen is off. If you lock at 200mhz after a while you have to hard reboot because the phone don't want to wake up.
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geistteufel said:
The best way to save a lot of battery is to use SetCPU and lock speed at max 500mhz when screen is off. If you lock at 200mhz after a while you have to hard reboot because the phone don't want to wake up.
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I don't think SetCPU has any good effect on battery for GS II. When the screen is Off, and I guess the CPU isn't doing anything, then it will automatically run at 500 MHz or below. So there is no need to set the clock rate. I purchased the app, used it for two days at Ondemand preset, and the battery seems decreasing fast than in normal, which is weird, very weird. May be I yet to find the right setting of the appl, but till now it's not working for me and I have disabled it.
Regards.
Oh I think he has. In my case I often listen music with bluetooth. The cpu want to go above the 500mhz. So the limitation is useful. In the case I do nothing, yes it doesn't change anything.
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I don't think SetCPU has any good effect on battery for GS II. When the screen is Off, and I guess the CPU isn't doing anything, then it will automatically run at 500 MHz or below. So there is no need to set the clock rate. I purchased the app, used it for two days at Ondemand preset, and the battery seems decreasing fast than in normal, which is weird, very weird. May be I yet to find the right setting of the appl, but till now it's not working for me and I have disabled it.
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I use a free app called "cpu spy" it shows you how long your SGS2 spends in each frequency 200-1200 MHz
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bvalosek.cpuspy
I have not used my phone at all. 0 use.
4 hours 45 mins and 6% is down.
I tell you, not even a text message. Charged it over night and haven't touched it.
is there a way to find out what's draining my battery?
I just had the Mytouch 4G... it stayed in 100% for hours if I didn't use it.
Few questions:
1. Were you in a weak signal area?
2. Did you have background data toggled?
3. Is the phone actually asleep?
4. Do you have any apps that do b/g sync(twitt, fb, g+, etc)?
3b. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bvalosek.cpuspy&hl=en
^Dl that app and check the CPU levels while idle, it's possible that a rogue app is preventing deep sleep, or that the CPU freq is remaining at high levels--even during screen off.
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Few questions:
1. Were you in a weak signal area?
2. Did you have background data toggled?
3. Is the phone actually asleep?
4. Do you have any apps that do b/g sync(twitt, fb, g+, etc)?
3b. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bvalosek.cpuspy&hl=en
^Dl that app and check the CPU levels while idle, it's possible that a rogue app is preventing deep sleep, or that the CPU freq is remaining at high levels--even during screen off.
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1. Thanks Ace... I live in Miami, so the signal is perfect.
2. During this off time, I had sync and data disabled. no data, just text messages coming through [none received though]
3. I'm not sure if the phone is actually asleep. I assumed it was, i didn't touch it once for the 4 hours that it was unplugged.
4. No Facebook app, Twitter app yes. Google+ yes, but like I said, data was off.
3b. I'll download that app and give it a try, thanks!
5. 3b?
HG! said:
1. Thanks Ace... I live in Miami, so the signal is perfect.
2. During this off time, I had sync and data disabled. no data, just text messages coming through [none received though]
3. I'm not sure if the phone is actually asleep. I assumed it was, i didn't touch it once for the 4 hours that it was unplugged.
4. No Facebook app, Twitter app yes. Google+ yes, but like I said, data was off.
3b. I'll download that app and give it a try, thanks!
5. 3b?
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Yeah I forgot to mention the Cpu spy app before so I made it 3b. After you try out the app if you notice that the device spends a significant amount of time at high frequencies, then that is one possible explanation for your idle battery loss. If your phone is rooted then you will be able to force lower clocks via the profile management in SetCPU; however if you are not rooted there is not much you can do, but endure the battery drain and hope an update will fix it up.
At that rate you'd get 79.2 hours on a single charge. There's nothing wrong.
You also have to remember that these phones dont really charge up to 100%. Its really at about 98-96% so it doesn't overcharge the battery and will make the battery have a long life.
Yeah if you think there is something wrong you must be coming from an iphone.
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My Galaxy S3 Battery Life Sucks Please Help! 15% After Only 7 Hours.
I’ve been having this same problem sense I got my phone about 2 months ago but now I’m finally just tired of it! My phone is rooted, using the stock ROM.
What I do to help battery life:
- Every morning I hold the home button and kill multitasking and kill all running aps in the background then I open autokill which automatically kills running apps in the background that are not needed.
- I have power saving enabled
- Easy Battery Saver running
After 7 hours of use I’m already at 15% and through out the day I barley use my phone. Its like this just about everyday. I use my phone about an hour of the entire day of web surfing and Facebook usage etc. The rest of the day I’m only texting and maybe taking 3 or 4 phone calls that last 10 mins. How much battery could that possibly take? A flip phone can do that and last 3 days..
I used my iPhone 4S much more during the day then I do the galaxy S3 because the S3 has terrible battery life.
On my iPhone I would have about 22% after everyday of using it for 11 hours down time = sleep and 4 hours of usage = texting, , phone calls, web surfing, games etc.
I don’t play games or watch movies on my S3. Only texting, instagram, facebook, websurfing which is about an hour a day usage. Also a couple minutes of GPS usage on some days.
What can I do to fix this? I don’t want a bigger battery that will make my phone any thicker.
I have pictures below showing usage through out the day and usage under battery.
Please help!
Thanks!
You screen is using most of your battery. Check the brightness levels. Are they on max or close to it? Switch it to auto
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You screen is using most of your battery. Check the brightness levels. Are they on max or close to it? Switch it to auto
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My brightness is always set to lowest possible expect while walking from to and from class. Ill post a little more pics maybe these can help figure out the problem problem?
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My brightness is always set to lowest possible expect while walking from to and from class. Ill post a little more pics maybe these can help figure out the problem problem?
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Oh thats easy.
You're phone is always "Awake". It doesn't go into Deep sleep like everyone elses. If you take a look at the first picture you linked with the graph, it shows that the phone is always AWAKE.
For comparison, I have attached mine as a reference but something is DEFINITELY keeping your phone awake.
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Oh thats easy.
You're phone is always "Awake". It doesn't go into Deep sleep like everyone elses. If you take a look at the first picture you linked with the graph, it shows that the phone is always AWAKE.
For comparison, I have attached mine as a reference but something is DEFINITELY keeping your phone awake.
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From pics ive posted can you tell which apps are not letting it go into deep sleep?
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From pics ive posted can you tell which apps are not letting it go into deep sleep?
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Can't really see anything that stands out per say...
If you see anything on that thread or any apps on your phone that you think could be keeping it awake, just uninstall them. I would suggest trying to remove them a few at a time just to narrow down which ones are keeping the phone awake.
Also, apparently this app helps a lot (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bvalosek.cpuspy) and Better Battery stats should give you a better idea of which apps use the CPU while your phone is trying to sleep.
Oh and remove any task managers you have installed.. Those tend to be the worst offenders.
One last thing, found this on another forum:
- Don't use an automatic task killer--not even the one that comes with the phone. Reboot your phone and look at what's running. If anything that you've installed is running and there's no reason for it, then uninstall it and find an alternative that behaves. Ignore any stock apps that run on boot as I've found them to be more or less benign.
- Weather widgets, live wallpapers, news/social feeds, any app or service that you use that runs--do without it if you can. If you can’t do without it, lengthen it’s refresh time.
- Don't use antivirus
- Set your WIFI sleep policy to never. The default is "turn off when screen turns off". This will cause the wifi to reconnect every time you open the phone. From any Home Screen select Menu/Settings/Wireless & Networks/ and then use the Menu button to see some new options - select Advanced. Then select Wifi Sleep Policy and set it to Never. Home key to return to Home Screen.
- If you have access to wifi, leave it toggled on as it is more efficient than 3G. Wifi consumes less battery power than 3G.
- I leave GPS toggled on too by the way. Apps use it as needed. When I'm done with Maps or an app that uses it, I'm sure to return to the home screen so GPS can stop. Under wireless settings turn on "Google location services" so that an app is able to use network resources to get your location instead of GPS. I have "VZW location services" turned off--don't know why that option is even there. By the way, I increase the speed of voice output > text to speech > speech rate because I like the directions to get spit out faster. That saves a bit of battery. Turning off the display and just listening for directions help. Also, often I just get the directions and then exit back to the home screen: GPS uses so much battery I try to get it over with ASAP.
- Under Accounts, click on any account listed and turn off sync for any items that you're not interested in syncing. For example, Google Books if you don't use it. Don't use Backup Assistant--I prefer syncing my contacts with Google. You don't need both. Also go into your contacts > menu > display options > backup assistant > UNCHECK. Also do contacts > menu > more > settings > contact storage > and select your Google account and "remember this choice"
Are you on the 3G network a lot or weak signal areas? Is your phone hot around the bottom? If yes to both, most likely it's because of the system attempting to find a better signal. When I was swapping out my SIMs, in various countries, I only have 3G network and my battery fully drains in 7hrs at idle. The only way i can go a whole day is to place my phone into airplane mode or wifi only to conserve the battery.
my battery runs at-most 13 hrs........................
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My Galaxy S3 Battery Life Sucks Please Help! 15% After Only 7 Hours.
I’ve been having this same problem sense I got my phone about 2 months ago but now I’m finally just tired of it! My phone is rooted, using the stock ROM.
What I do to help battery life:
- Every morning I hold the home button and kill multitasking and kill all running aps in the background then I open autokill which automatically kills running apps in the background that are not needed.
- I have power saving enabled
- Easy Battery Saver running
After 7 hours of use I’m already at 15% and through out the day I barley use my phone. Its like this just about everyday. I use my phone about an hour of the entire day of web surfing and Facebook usage etc. The rest of the day I’m only texting and maybe taking 3 or 4 phone calls that last 10 mins. How much battery could that possibly take? A flip phone can do that and last 3 days..
I used my iPhone 4S much more during the day then I do the galaxy S3 because the S3 has terrible battery life.
On my iPhone I would have about 22% after everyday of using it for 11 hours down time = sleep and 4 hours of usage = texting, , phone calls, web surfing, games etc.
I don’t play games or watch movies on my S3. Only texting, instagram, facebook, websurfing which is about an hour a day usage. Also a couple minutes of GPS usage on some days.
What can I do to fix this? I don’t want a bigger battery that will make my phone any thicker.
I have pictures below showing usage through out the day and usage under battery.
Please help!
Thanks!
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Welcome to smartphones. The calls alone will drain the battery. Seven hours isn't horrible for all that. It isn't a flip phone.
why your phone is always awaking?
mattwarr said:
Welcome to smartphones. The calls alone will drain the battery. Seven hours isn't horrible for all that. It isn't a flip phone.
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maybe you have to flash a new rom
If you want, you could try to flash a custom ROM. I had the same problem that you have, and I flashed Revolutionary S5, and now my phone lasts minimum two days with the same usage, maybe a bit more.
Too bad Tony Stark hasn't gotten involved
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maybe you have to flash a new rom
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Titanium Backup will assist a little bit. When you do a backup of an apk it will tell you if the application is running. You can find all kinds of sneaky apps this way. Many of them were ones I didn't use and didn't really want. That will probably yield minimal results, though. Keeping a black background helps on my S3. Colors, widgets, and live backgrounds will drain the battery. Turn off the menu and back key lights. You know the buttons are there. Turn off all haptic feedback and key press sounds. Of course, try to lower the screen brightness. Leaving my data and sync on hasn't caused me any problems, but you will save some battery by turning them off when not in use. I also read a post about hidden menu options that ran even when they weren't meant to. That was an issue that destroyed battery life. Some ROMs also have settings for data connection type. You'll save power by telling your phone to not worry about gaining signals like 4g, 3g, etc. As other people have said, try out some ROMs that make battery life a big priority.
it CAN get better
if you want to have a good battery life, use custom rom and kernel (or a modified stock like omega rom), watch out for wakelocks + apply these settings:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/guide-complete-guide-battery-saving-t2495276
also, interesting info here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/post-battery-stats-t2621654
Hi guys,
I asked a few days ago about governor settings but then set out to explore it myself. The aim of what I was doing was to make my truesmart last a full day of normal use. I am trying to make my truesmart my primary device, so a full days use is important (especially as Omate have not yet shipped my second cradle!)
Over my first couple of days with the Truesmart it was lasting about 9 hours of moderate use (Moderate use to me is having it on my wrist all day, showing people who ask, talking to my girlfriend on hangouts, checking facebook and updating a few apps). This meant that it was usually running out of juice on the walk home from work. And that really was not good enough. Yesterday, with all my modifications I was able to go out until midnight, and come home to 40% battery. So these are the tools that after trying a few I think are worthwhile.
1. Bluetooth on call https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.futonredemption.jasper.btoncall
Does what it says, when someone calls BT turns on, pairs with my headset and lets me pick up. In reverse I dail a number, count to 3 and select the bluetooth speaker, usually before they have picked up. The result is that BT goes from being about 17% of a days charge to not registering on my battery meter.
2. Lean data - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teqtic.leandata
Wifi is on when screen is on or on charge, when screen is off it can be set to pulse on and off for set time periods (i set 1 on and 10 off). The result is that Wifi goes from being 20% of a days charge to being about 4%
So once I was done with the two most obvious methods I had two main culprits of power usage.Cell Standby (41%) and Phone Idle (37%). Short of some baseband tuning 2g off (I live in Korea, there is no 2g) there is nothing that can be done with cell standby. So I looked to governor settings to reduce Cell standby and maybe even improved on screen battery performance. I tried a few apps, but this was by far the best
3. CPU tuner - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.amana.android.cputuner
Usual warnings here, this app is playing with some fairly low level stuff, it may stuff up your device and it does have a few bugs.
This app actually makes the first two redundant,, I've left the links for people that don't want to mess with governors, they are now off my watch. But the best thing this one does is that it allows you to set modes for different CPU governor tweaks on the fly. YOu will want to read this next: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1736168
On the truesmart we have 5 Governors available:
Performance - all on
Powersave - all (yes all) to lowest power
On demand - all scale frequency to power demand
Userspace - something odd that lets compatible apps set it ignore it
Hotplug - like on demand but can turn off one CPU completely
And from what I can tell we have 3 frequencies available on a 1Ghz chip (598, 806 and 1001).
You will almost always want to use hot plug unless you are benchmarking or manually switched one of the cores off as the others lack the ability to halt the second core automatically, so power is usually better, even than powersave. You also get to set the percentage of load that the frequency is upped and a powersave vs performance bias which I believe impacts how long the governor should be at that load before stepping up to the next level and how eager it is to step back.
I use uniform profile and set the following modes:
On screen or lock screen - hotplug - a small powersave bias and threshhold up at 50
Screen off on call or charging - powersave - max cpu 598, 2nd core disabled
People might find my charging profile odd, but I figure the device isn't overly usable in the cradle so why not have it charge as fast as possible, I tried performance but it got hot. With all this set, my phone idle battery usage now tracks up at about 2/3 the rate of my cell standby and there really is no loss in end user performance. The governor tweaking probably gets me and extra hour or 2 usage over the day.
After everything was done I have gone from 9 hours of charge with my usage profile to being able to last a full 18 hour day and still having room to spare. 36 hours off charge is not off the cards, so that is a four fold improvement. Have a play and let me know if it helps.
Here ya go. Remove the txt extension. This is the core of the edits that was getting a TS 10-12 days of 2G standby with no syncs and over 4 days 3G/HSPA+ standby with G+/Hangouts/Email and other apps syncing as they like.
Pay close attention to the loki99 edits. The governor changes alone save a bit of battery. It forces lowest clock rate and one core unless the device really needs both cores and higher clocks.
Lokifish Marz said:
Here ya go. Remove the txt extension. This is the core of the edits that was getting a TS 10-12 days of 2G standby with no syncs and over 4 days 3G/HSPA+ standby with G+/Hangouts/Email and other apps syncing as they like.
Pay close attention to the loki99 edits. The governor changes alone save a bit of battery. It forces lowest clock rate and one core unless the device really needs both cores and higher clocks.
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Ah you are still around. I have a 1/8/2100 (hence why I hadn't applied your ROM to benefit from those tweaks) is there anything I need to change other than the maximum frequency of 1001000 for that model?
There are no 2g networks in Korea or I'd have 3g disabled. So 3 to 4 days it is I think right now mine is tracking down at about 1% an hour, cell standby being the biggest consumer, is there anything that can be done to reduce that further?
Thank you I'll have a play. I take it I just put the script into the init.d folder and copy the parts of the buildprop to the system directory. Is there anything else to it?
Not really. I quit deving but somebody messaged me about this and pointed to this thread. 3G only kind of bites as the 2G radios are still on and looking for networks and using battery. Try DS Battery Saver and set it to "Agressive" or "Slumberer".
Aggressive will disable WiFi, data and syncs when the screen is off and every 2 hours it will turn on data/sync for about a minute and let your apps sync.
Slumberer will completely disable WiFi, data and syncs when the screen is off and only allow data/sync when the TS is awake.
Having wifi on at all unless there is a network it can connect to is useless.
My primarily use is for sports though, the GPS eats battery (as expected). But I want max power when starting.
Less crappy firmware with Bluetooth 4 and/or another dataplan may change my use though.
For more granular control, DS Battery Saver and Kernel Tuner have Locale plugin interfaces, so they can be used in Llama/Tasker. Tasker has some governor/CPU freq support too. Additionally Locale Execute plugin can be used to activate scripts similar to what Loki posted.
CPU Tuner works reasonably well out of the box, but I want to combine profiles with location, for instance wifi only at home. In addition, I have a data plan that require activation, so data/sync is only occasionally on. (Ad based, data, SMS, talk is free, but you have to watch ads every 2nd hour for data.) So for data to be on, the condition should be to ping some internet server. At home I use wifi when screen is on.
I have some Llama events setup now for multiple locations, may have to switch to Tasker to get what I want.
I recently installed LS 4.0 on my Razr Maxx and noticed on my break at work i was at around 35% battery, then 2 hours later when i got off work i was at 3%, in that time i didnt have any apps open so the drain dosent make any sense. I took a screenshot of the battery graph for reference: http://i.imgur.com/MyUDnNT.png
As you can see on the graph it randomly drops off there and then goes down at a pretty brisk pace. I wasent using the phone from 6pm to 8pm, right around the time it dropped all that battery.
Could this be due to my battery just dieing out or is it possibly a issue with the rom?
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I recently installed LS 4.0 on my Razr Maxx and noticed on my break at work i was at around 35% battery, then 2 hours later when i got off work i was at 3%, in that time i didnt have any apps open so the drain dosent make any sense. I took a screenshot of the battery graph for reference: http://i.imgur.com/MyUDnNT.png
As you can see on the graph it randomly drops off there and then goes down at a pretty brisk pace. I wasent using the phone from 6pm to 8pm, right around the time it dropped all that battery.
Could this be due to my battery just dieing out or is it possibly a issue with the rom?
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Please describe more information like:
1. was your network set in 3G? LS battery isn't really good with 3G
2. what number of app you are using? social media apps that always updating their data i.e google+, fb, etc --> would increase data usage when they synchronize.
3. please check whether your razr went to deep sleep.
Solution:
1. Set to 2G always and go to 3G if you want faster speed (download the 2g/3g toggle widget for L)
2. Uninstall those app if you're not using it or limit their synchronize routine by the app itself or using profile in Tasker (advanced method)
3. you should installed wakelock monitor app from Play Store
If battery drain were persist when you have done those troubleshoot and solution, you should try to calibrate your battery (leave it shutdown automatically after reaching low level and then charge it until 100%, go + 1 hour to make sure, go to recovery to check the % and then boot to your system and calibrate using calibration app from the Play Store).
Last one, if calibrate doesnt work, then the battery might be already dropped.
Also do check that location services etc are set to power save mode.
Use an app to check wakelock and disable that annoying app.
or may be you are right... lets hope not for your own wellness!
I also remember having that problem when I was on cm12. After my battery dropping insanely low, it kept long before the little juice left in it run out.
So i thinks its something with the 5.0 ROMs
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